Poetry Devices
"Sheep should shower in a shed" is an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration
The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, form the perspective of "I."
What is Ancient Greek Drama?
The first full-length play we read together as a class, a classic case of the tragic hero.
What is Oedipus Rex?
What is Zac, or Mr. Applegate?
What is synecdoche?
A genre structured by a character growing up, detailing the places her or she lived and how they grew into adulthood, usually focusing on pyschological or spiritual maturation.
What is a bildungsroman?
The Byronic hero is a character type that emerges from this era in literature.
Where Jane in Jane Eyre is confined to as a punishment for "acting out" and is symbolic of her coming of age.
What is the Red Room?
The country in Africa that Mrs. Applegate taught at approximately 14 years after they experienced a genocide.
William Blake wrote these two contrasting poems that form a dialectic about innocence and experience.
What are The Tyger and The Lamb?
A figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or characters says one thing, but means something else, usually opposite.
What is verbal irony?
John Donne and Andrew Marvel belong to this group of 17th century poets.
What are the Metaphysical Poets?
Finish the iconic line from Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ______"
What is a wife?
The color family that Mrs. Applegate loves to decorate with.
Bodies of work by William Shakespeare that are split into 3 quatrains and a couplet and often addressed to either a "fair youth" or a "dark lady."
What are Shakespearean sonnets?
The even-tempered and diplomatic character foil to King Oedipus in Oedipus Rex.
What is Creon?
The literary movement that doubles as a historical event involving repetitive, often song-like poetic structure and African-American concerns.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The four men who ride up to Sethe's house in chapter 16 of Beloved represent these famous biblical characters.
What are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?
What is "All of Me" by John Legend?
"She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, for ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" is a line from this famous Romantic
What is "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
This unique point of view was used in "A Rose for Emily" and embodied this set of characters in the short story by William Faulkner.
The neoclassical author from this literary movement who is quoted as saying "Nature, and nature's laws lay hid in Night. But God said let Newton be! And All was Light!"
Alexander Pope from the Augustan Poets
The reason why Edmund is willing to confess to his treachery at the end of King Lear, Act II, scene iii, which some people see as potentially redemptive
What is his death?
The one name in the following list that is NOT one of Mrs. Applegate's childrens' middle names: Grace, Clement, Joy.
What is Grace?